One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay website has said that the one-year prison sentences handed down by a Swedish judge are “weird and bizarre” and insisted that the defendants “can’t pay and wouldn’t pay” the $3.6million fine. In a press conference, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi held up a handwritten IOU to the camera and […]
The Motion Picture Dist. Association of India (MPDA), which is the local arm of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is stepping up on anti-piracy initiatives across India. MPDA managing director Rajiv Dalal said that he launch of the Indian arm of MPAA reflected “the coming together of Hollywood and Bollywood in this drive […]
French legislators have rejected legislation to permit cutting off the Internet connections of people who illegally download music and films. The government nevertheless plans to resurrect the bill for another vote later this month. Backers of the bill – record labels, film companies and law-and-order parliamentarians – couldn’t rally the needed support during in a […]
Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country’s new anti-piracy law came into effect. Sweden’s new policy – the Local IPRED law – allows copyright holders to force internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files. The new law, which is based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement […]
Microsoft and AT&T have revealed details of a collaborative effort to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across AT&T’s TV, broadband and wireless services. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft intends to add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, enabling access […]
The television industry is responsible for the proliferation of illegal content piracy and needs to lift its game to prevent it, according to Hybrid TV CEO Robbee Minicola speaking at Get Ready for Digital TV conference. Minicola said that illegal piracy is the result of consumers not getting the content they want at the times […]
Owners of the controversial Swedish BitTorrent website the Pirate Bay – currently embroiled in a copyright trial in Sweden – have announced they’re going to start using VPN (virtual private network) technologies to make its users harder to track. In typical 'pirate style' the unlogged VPN service will be called IPREDator, named after a new […]
SecureMedia announced that is has been accepted as a member in the Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to take IPTV to the mass market. Founded in 2007, the Open IPTV Forum’s goal is to develop and promote an open, end-to-end specification for IPTV based upon existing technologies and open standards that […]
Seven Britons have been arrested in the Spanish coastal area of Orihuela for allegedly distributing pirated television signals to more than 15,000 clients, most of them also British. The Guardia Civil made the arrests in several urbanisations on March 17, with telecommunications and computer material also being seized. The group allegedly distributed the signal from […]
Research from Coda Research Consultancy estimates that UK Internet users watch at least £1.3 billion worth of video content a year through illegal file sharing, and that video rights owners are losing at least £100m a year in lost revenue. Year-on-year increases in these illegal behaviours are irreversible, but can be slowed through the launch […]